Innovative wine glass by Alvaro Uribe

20-12-2010

Designer Alvaro Uribe has designed a wine glass. The glass is introduced at the Tipsy Wineglass Conceot Testing at the MOMA in San Francisco. Good wine is tested by his look, smell and taste. This glass’s head tips forward, to give acces to the best qualities of the wine.

Wine vending machines of Walmart

16-12-2010

Selling wine in a supermarket in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania is illegal, unless the wine is sold with the help of vending machines. A new innovative vending machine only sells wine to people who did an alcohol test and had their driverslicense scanned and had their identity verified.

 

Robot-waiters

14-12-2010

The Chinese Restaurant “Dalu Rebot” uses six robots to serve food and drinks to the tables. The robots follow a fixed route laid down in the restaurant. The idea behind these “restaurants robots” comes from the Shandong Dalu Science and Technology Company.

Hotel Daaldersplaats in Sneek, Friesland, The Netherlands

13-12-2010

Hotel Daaldersplaats Sneek, Friesland, The Netherlands uses social media. In an inspiring movie they show how they do it and they do encourage their guests to do the same!  in the hospitality industry use different social media.

 

Special Japanese wine to Holland

12-12-2010

The wellknown Dutch sommelier Edwin Raben brings a special Japanese wine on the Dutch market. It’s not about Japanese rice wine, but wine made from the Koshu grape. The wine is called “Shizen” which means nature in Japanese. 

Google is about to serve the restaurant guests

12-12-2010

Google wants to serve information to users without them searching for something, but based on their browsing or location profile, “contextual discovery”. For example: If you’re in a restaurant, Google can, based on the location of your mobile, provide you automatically a message with a link to the menu, along with indications of what your friends like to eat. Coming in 2011.

 

The House of Rising Amsterdam, fashion, music, bar

12-12-2010

 The House of Rising is a bar in Amsterdam where you can eat, drink, network and be inspired. The ground floor is a bar next to a space reserved for exhibitions of artists. On the first floor one can buy exclusive clothes.

Amsterdam restauarnt reviews on Yelp

11-12-2010

The American-review site Yelp launched on December 8 in The Netherlands. They do start with only reviews from the Amsterdam area. People who do not live in Amsterdam can also write a review. Besides restaurants there are many other testimonials about: shopping, beauty and spa, hotels and travel, nightlife and local services.

Burger King opens Dessert Bar

11-12-2010

Burger King opened  its first stand-alone Dessert Bar in a shopping mall in London.  At the Dessert Bar you can buy pancakes, brownies, cakes, muffins and ice cream. If the bar proves to be a success more will follow in the United Kingdom.

New Heineken bottle

10-12-2010

Heineken will soon introduce a new bottle. The new bottle will get a slightly longer neck with a slight indentation where the name Heineken vertically is shown. The bottles serve as black lights in the dark.

 

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